Diagnosis: learned tokens grew to norm ~3.2 while real CLIP content tokens
sit at ~1.0. Model never trained on embeddings that large — activates buzz
artifact instead of semantic style shift.
Fix: measure mean token norm from content positions (1–20) of dataset CLIP
embeddings at startup, clamp learned_tokens per-token after every optimizer
step to max 1.5× that reference (50% headroom). Token norm is now logged
as current/limit for easy monitoring.
ti_sweep_1.json: rebuild around norm_clamp group — n4_clamped (primary
diagnostic), prefix_clamped, n8_prefix_clamped, warm_clamped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
EthanfelandClaude Sonnet 4.6
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